P4 or Athlon

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

please do not flame on a threat that seems to invite for flaming.

We are about to upgrade our PCs (Athlon) because of the amazing request
of resources Inventor requires. As IV relays very much on OpenGL, and
P4-systems seem to be much better in this specific jobs, I tend to
choose these and not Athlon-CPUs.

We use Quadro4 980XGL video-boards.

Any thoughts/hints?

Thanks for your help,

Heribert.

[Anonymous]

I have always used AMD and never regretted it. P4's are more $$ and IMHO
not worth the extra cash.

I would make sure you get a system at 8x agp with that VC, mem that supports
the faster FSB and as much CPU as you can afford.

"Heribert Maier" wrote in message
news:3F1CC965183FC54BB88D2FF97A869A93@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Hi all,
>
> please do not flame on a threat that seems to invite for flaming.
>
> We are about to upgrade our PCs (Athlon) because of the amazing request
> of resources Inventor requires. As IV relays very much on OpenGL, and
> P4-systems seem to be much better in this specific jobs, I tend to
> choose these and not Athlon-CPUs.
>
> We use Quadro4 980XGL video-boards.
>
> Any thoughts/hints?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Heribert.
>

[Anonymous]

If you need a multi processor machine, the dual Athlons are the best value for money. For a good Inventor CAD Station, a single P4
with hyperthreading and 2GB of RAM is quicker than a dual Athlon (and less money) apart from the 2D drawing creation where multi
processor machines are noticeably faster.

The Intel Peso motherboard (865PE) is excellent and has serial ATA for fast hard drives and 8X AGP. Failing that Asus and Gigabyte
do similar boards with 800MHz front side bus and 8X AGP.

I know people in here don't agree with me entirely on the subject of single P4 machines, but with the right motherboard they do
outperform all but the fastest dual Athlon machines for less money - benchmarking and customer use has proven this.

John Bilton